LA8YB Earth-Moon-Earth Station
Data for LA8YB 144 MHz EME antenna:
- Each individual 17 element
antenna has a length of 10 meters
(Type 17M2).
- Total number of antennas is
32 arranged in an 8 by 4 rectangle.
- The array consists of 8
vertical booms each of length 12 m
- Stacking distance:
horizontally 4,22 m, vertically 3,96 m.
- The antennas are mounted on
a 32 m long horizontal boom
which is supported by 2 vertical masts each of length 9.5 m.
- The antenna is mounted on a
rail of diameter 10,3 m and may
rotate through 360 degrees.
- The phasing cables between
the antennas are 1/2" and 7/8"
cellflex. The feeder from the transmitter is diameter 3" with air
dielectric
- Beamwidth is about 3.7 degrees and
total gain is about 29.4 dBd making
it possible to hear one's own EME signal with only 10 Watts.
- Pictures from
EME station
from 2005
- More
pictures
Some QSLs from past operations:
- LB8YB (JX, Jan Mayen), 1953:
- LB8YB (OX, Myggbukta,
Greenland) 1955:
- Have also been active as JW8YB and JX8YB
15 Sep 2005
LA8YB,
Finn Jensen